The representatives of the EU states decided that the first enlargement group should include only five countries. Romania is not included among them. The Foreign Ministers within the European Union (EU) announced at the Luxembourg meeting at the end of this week that they try to find the proper form to announce that not all the candidate states are invited to the admission negotiations next year. he 15 member states must arrive to a consensus before the EU summit to take place in the middle of December, where the main issue will be the EU enlargement. Some analysts say that any rejection of some candidates will have irreparable political and psychological consequences on the East-European states which will be not invited to the negotiations for their admission to the EU. The Foreign ministers announced that they are about to adopt a compromise formula that should include all the ten East-European candidate states, also observing the recommendation of the European Commission regarding the beginning of the negotiations with China, Hungary, Poland, Estonia, Slovenia and Cyprus. The rest of the candidates - Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Letonia and Lithuania "will wait apart," the German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel declared. The President of the European Commission Jacques Santer, emphasised that "the differentiation does not mean discrimination." "The idea of the simultaneous beginning of the negotiations is no more valid", the British Foreign Minister Doug Henderson declared. The representatives of the EU states decided that the first enlargement group should include only five countries. Romania is not included among them. The Foreign Ministers within the European Union (EU) announced at the Luxembourg meeting at the end of this week that they try to find the proper form to announce that not all the candidate states are invited to the admission negotiations next year.